Facebook and MySpace: The difference may surprise you … or not


Facebook and MySpace: The difference may surprise you … or not

Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), News Corp'B' (NWS)A study into the two biggest social networking sites, Facebook and News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace, suggests that the teenagers who use Facebook come from more affluent homes and are more likely to attend college than those teenagers who use MySpace, who are more likely to discontinue their education after high school.Continuing to mirror real life's societal norms, Facebook teenage users tend to be in honor classes and look forward to the prom, while MySpace users -- other than also having a larger immigrant representation -- are also less popular in high school, being "geeks" and "freaks."I was first surprise to read this since I had always hoped the internet would level the ...

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